That metaphor barely made sense, any way you cut it. Iruka shook his head. "No, I didn't see him. Positive." Okay. So what that meant was... No trace-tracking then.
"Then we go to Kisame, ask him if he'd seen Genma." Privately, Iruka thought he was unlikely to have eaten him. Genma'd stab the guy going down. "Where else could he have gone, do you know?"